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Most articles, news stories and blog commentaries about social media seem to be written by someone looking through a tourist telescope, like the ones in Battery Park or on the edge of the Grand Canyon.\u00a0 The general approach is “Look, people are tweeting!”\u00a0 Or “Quick! Get in there and make money.”\u00a0 And at the other end of the spectrum are writers who seem to be so immersed in the social media world that they speak a secret language.<\/p>\n

But Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang<\/a> is one blog that’s consistently substantive without taking itself too seriously, and leading-edge instead of merely trendy.\u00a0 Although Owyang works for Forrester Research–which provides a lot of access–this is his personal blog, and it covers a wide rage of topics relating to how businesses can and should use the web.<\/p>\n

There’s even a job board for “web strategist” positions, which have recently included openings for an “online connection pastor” and an SEO analyst for the Oprah Winfrey Network.\u00a0 Just browsing these postings provides another angle for understanding the scope and reality of social media and web presence in today’s marketplace.<\/p>\n

I’d sum up by saying Owyang’s blog is not so much “about” the social media space as it is about thinking in a social media way.\u00a0 And that involves a lot more than just jumping on the Twitter-wagon.\u00a0 If you’re interested in really understanding the web landscape and its inhabitants, race to read What Companies Should Know about Digital Natives<\/a>.\u00a0 This post–live-blogged from a conference on corporate social networking–explains some key factors about folks who are either born into the digital world (i.e., from 1980 on) or have arrived there as immigrants.<\/p>\n

I’m an immigrant, of course, but I was an early homesteader on the digital frontier, so in many ways I feel more kinship with the natives than with my own generation.\u00a0 Though my friends and colleagues are all “computer literate,” even those who work in IT are mostly still living and thinking in the age of the individual user.\u00a0 Not that they don’t get their maps online, got to virtual meetings, IM like mad, and put their snapshots on Facebook!\u00a0 It’s just that they don’t think of the world as one big open, creative, accessible digital space.<\/p>\n

Non-natives worry about privacy, for example, and piracy.\u00a0 They read newspapers (which I’m definitely not saying is a bad thing), buy physical media (CDs, DVDs, paper books), and don’t see the point of Twitter. They shop online but don’t have a PayPal account . . .<\/p>\n

So in addition to the digital divide between those who do and those who don’t have computer access, there is also a divide between those who do and those who don’t “get” digital life.\u00a0 Not as in Second Life and virtual reality–which is sort of a specialty interest–and not as in the early chip-centric visions of “ubiquitous computing.” \u00a0More as in Zoho instead of MS Office, Hulu instead of Tivo, and WordPress instead of Writer’s Market.<\/p>\n

Want to recruit digital natives?\u00a0 Create a digital environment.<\/p>\n

More to come.<\/p>\n


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